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Let’s Go Crevicing for Gold
January 2008 by Chris Ralph
People have been looking for gold in every manner possible since the big gold boom in 1849, so what chance do we have of getting anything in today’s world where literally thousands of prospectors and fortune seekers have been before us?
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